Inspector general began to review this matter. We now find that even mr. Cummings who had made certain 2012cts at irs in august, again, the question before us is contempt against lois lerner. She was given the opportunity to come before us and she came before us the first time in may. That is less than a year ago. And she refused to cooperate and testify. We gave her another opportunity just weeks ago to come back and to testify. Interviewedime, we over 30 witnesses. Almost every one of them, and i will put this in the record, pointed to lois lerner. She started this whole thing out. Will the gentleman yield . I will not yield. The gentlemans time is his we will have regular order. The gentleman may continue. What she did is worthy of probably an Academy Award here and she went before the Inspector General report was may in it was released may 14. On may 10, she did a broadway production. It was worthy of an Academy Award. When she said that, one of the irs folks who heard it, cindy th
Their future is certainly difficult in the sense that israel is not willing to reconsider out itself to hamas theg a dominant player in palestinian scene. That is why when hamas and the faction of palestinian president bbad announce a unity government, they were opposed to that. How to normalize hamas or bring them into the political process . That has been the big elephant in the room for such a long time , that even when you have a u. S. Sponsored peace negotiation, those are done with m Mahmoud Abbas. According to the u. S. , they are a terrorist organization as well as to israel. The other option would be to eradicate hamas. We have seen time and again that that is not really possible. Inas is deeply embedded Palestinian Society in terms of social services, parallel , and they have mass support. Not a majority necessarily, but a significant portion of the population. Au cant really eradicate group like that altogether. That is why it becomes such a dilemma, because eradication does
Dont want her pregnant with a product of rape and so theyll go to the local pharmacy where it doesnt require a prescription in those countries, buy Birth Control pills and start their daughter on this. Their 12yearold daughter, heir 13yearold daughter. Put her on Birth Control pills and per hut other put her on the train, all the while having an understanding that it was a high risk that she would be raped. And the data that we got, the judgment that we got from the people that are taking care of these unaccompanied alien children gave us these numbers. The lowest number they gave us on those that were raped on the way up was 1 3. The highest number they gave was 70 . In one place they told us it makes no difference, boys or girls, theyre all theyre victimized in the same proportion. As boys are victimized in the same proportion as the girls. Im not convinced that thats a reliable response, but it was repeated several times back to us. But i am convinced that its a reliable response on
Welcome to Washington Post live and my quest today is one of the biggest investors in russia after the fall of communism and the true story of money laundering, murder, and surviving vladamir putins wrath. Thank you for joining us on war post live. Great to be here. Thank you. Before we get to your book, i want to first have questions for bill browder, tweet them to us and well put to our guest. I want to ask you to focus before we talk about the book on the war in ukraine. Id be interested in your sense of the battlefield right now as russia in the second round. The first two dais of the war that russia would roll into ukraine and theyd take over kyiv that zelensky would flee and they could then wave the russian flag and with great pride and patriotism and turned out to be a total disasser and theyve lost by some estimates more than 20,000 troops, which is twice as many troops as soviet union lost in afghanistan and theyve lost more than 1,000 tanks and many planes, et cetera, et cete
The Helsinki Commission will come to order. I want to acknowledge senator blumenthal. We appreciate him being here. Let me just point out this is obviously a busy time for the United States senate as some of our committees are meeting simultaneously so members will be coming in and out. I apologize to our distinguished guest that therell be an in an outflow of members in the United States congress during this hearing. We are so honored to have a real hero with us today. Paievska better known as taira her nick name is wellknown to the people of ukraine. Todays hearing is my and russian captivity. We have seen from afar the atrocities that have been committed by mr. Putin in russia and the unprovoked attacks on ukraine. We have seen that from afar but i must tell you there is nothing like a firsthand explanation and experience for us to have a better understanding of the atrocities committed by russia in this war in ukraine. So as we saw the conflict unfold in mariupol and the atrocities